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New Poll Highlights Favorites In State Senate (FLORIDA)
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| April 6, 2004
| mason dixon poll/NewsChannel 2's via wesh.com
Posted on 04/06/2004 11:58:13 PM PDT by KQQL
Betty Castor, Bill McCollum Come In Tops
The results are in from NewsChannel 2's Orlando Sentinel Poll that focused on the U.S. Senate race.
Thirty-three of state Democrats favor former education commissioner Betty Castor -- a wide margin over her nearest challenger, Rep. Peter Deutsch, who took in 16 percent of votes.
Miami mayor Alex Penelas came in at 9 percent.
Four percent were undecided.
On the Republican side, former Rep. Bill McCollum leads former HUD secretary Mel Martinez 27 percent to 18 percent respectively.
State Sen. Dan Webster raked in 8 percent.
A whopping 34 percent were undecided.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2004; 2004senate; electionussenate; flpoll; flsenate; gopprimary; mccollum; melmartinez; poll; polls; senaterace
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posted on
04/06/2004 11:58:14 PM PDT
by
KQQL
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posted on
04/07/2004 12:05:30 AM PDT
by
KQQL
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Rats Primary.
Castor 33%
Deutsch 16%
Penelas 9%
Republican Primary.
MCCollum 27%
Mertinez 18%
Webster 8%
..........
Castor 39% - McCollum 38%
Castor 39% - Martinez 36%
Mason Dixon Poll
MOE+/-4% (Reg Voters) 03/30-31 to 04/01/04
McCollum 19%
Martinez 18%
Undecided 44%
SPTimes/Herald Poll
MOE+/-5.3% (Reg Voters) 03/03-04/04
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posted on
04/07/2004 12:09:36 AM PDT
by
KQQL
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To: KQQL
Bang!
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posted on
04/07/2004 12:16:56 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(John Fedayeen Kerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
To: KQQL
Daniel Webster is a very conservative Rep, most people in other parts of FL haven't heard of him yet. He is from the Orlando area.
I have already been hearing "anti- Martinez" ads on the radio- accusing him of being too much on the side of the trial lawyers.
Just a couple of observations from FL.
To: I still care
you think that this will be an R pickup?
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posted on
04/07/2004 4:04:49 AM PDT
by
DM1
To: DM1
I hope we can pick up a Republican Senate seat from this race.
However
Betty Castor has run successfully statewide and has good name recognition. She was Secretary of Education in the 90's when that office existed.
Bill McCollum has lost statewide and is a cold fish.
Mel Martinez is warm, personable and comes across as a decent guy. However he is nearly unknown in most of the state. He also was a Democrat not all that long ago. This might be good or bad depending on your perspective. Many Southern Democrats are now conservative Republicans.
His personal story is heartwarming and speaks to what is best about America for those newly arrived immigrants and those whose grandparents came from foreign countries. This aspect, properly highlighted, could win him substantial voting blocks in the southern part of the state from the well-to-do elderly retirement community and also from Hispanics.
His trial lawyer status is more likely to hurt him than anything else in his resume. Florida is in danger of losing its doctors due to malpractice premium increases caused by malpractice suits brought by trial lawyers.
The doctors are finally waking up to the necessity and advantages of political activism. They will most certainly go after Martinez unless he firmly denounces excessive malpractice settlements.
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posted on
04/07/2004 5:53:02 AM PDT
by
Naomi4
To: DM1
I don't know yet. Last election, FL were galvanized by being dragged by the Democrats through the 2000 mess. The press kept painting that as a "pro-war" election, but it was because Floridians were FURIOUS about told they were too stupid to punch a ballot. And they also didn't like Gore trying his best to disqualify military ballots here. Lots of military families here.
Not ONE demo from my district got in. Not one. Old timers, like Karen Thurman (bless her super liberal heart) got thrown out, thank God. The margins were huge. Some republicans were elected by 70-80%.
That anger I see as somewhat calmed down, but I have been seeing anti Bush bumper stickers on cars - no pro Kerry ones mind you, anti bush! Actually they are the best advertisement for Bush possible, when they get out of a car with a "redefeat Bush" sticker, they usually have piercings all over and purple hair.
And people really do like Jeb Bush. He is doing a bang up job down here, job growth is phenomenal, lots of personal freedoms, low taxes.
It is inevitable that Jeb and W are tied together in peoples minds. I guess it is still too early to make predictions.
To: Naomi4
If we don't nominate Martinez, we don't deserve to have that Senate seat. My personal preference would be that we elect Martinez, and failing him, Webster. I definitely do not want Bay Windows to lead the party again.
Moreover, Castor is just above 35%. For a statewide official, and possibly the last one standing, I'm not impressed.
To: KQQL
Why wasn't Johnnie Byrd in the poll? Has he dropped out of the race?
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